week |37| ATP : Beijing, Bucharest

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Beijing
1 Nadal, Rafael ESP 2
2 Davydenko, Nikolay RUS 7
3 Coria, Guillermo ARG 9
4 Nalbandian, David ARG 12
5 Johansson, Thomas SWE 15
6 Hrbaty, Dominik SVK 24
7 Lopez, Feliciano ESP 26
8 Youzhny, Mikhail RUS 27
9 Ferrero, Juan Carlos ESP 28
10 Moya, Carlos ESP 29
11 Srichaphan, Paradorn THA 42
12 Nieminen, Jarkko FIN 54
13 Muller, Gilles LUX 59
14 Lee, Hyung-Taik KOR 63
15 Kohlschreiber, Philipp GER 76
16 Arthurs, Wayne AUS 77
17 Kim, Kevin USA 78
18 Koubek, Stefan AUT 86
19 Burgsmuller, Lars GER 92
20 Wessels, Peter NED 93
21 Gimelstob, Justin USA 98
22 Schuettler, Rainer GER 104
23 Phau, Bjorn GER 105
24 (SE)
25 (SE)
26 (WC)
27 (WC)
28 (WC)
29 (Q)
30 (Q)
31 (Q)
32 (Q)

Alternates
1. Norman, Dick BEL 106
2. Tursunov, Dmitry RUS 108
3. Moodie, Wesley RSA 113
4. Bastl, George SUI 114
5. Waske, Alexander GER 115
6. Clement, Arnaud FRA 117
7. Falla, Alejandro COL 124
8. Ventura, Santiago ESP 125
9. Udomchoke, Danai THA 128
10. Vicente, Fernando ESP 129
11. Ryderstedt, Michael SWE 134
12. Lu, Yen-Hsun TPE 136
13. Brzezicki, Juan Pablo ARG 137
14. Karanusic, Roko CRO 138
15. Mertinak, Michal SVK 139

Bucharest
1 Ferrer, David ESP 21
2 Volandri, Filippo ITA 33
3 Rochus, Olivier BEL 34
4 Acasuso, Jose ARG 45
5 Rochus, Christophe BEL 46
6 Chela, Juan Ignacio ARG 47
7 Verdasco, Fernando ESP 48
8 Hanescu, Victor ROM 49
9 Andreev, Igor RUS 50
10 Sanguinetti, Davide ITA 55
11 Wawrinka, Stanislas SUI 56
12 Martin, Alberto ESP 57
13 Mathieu, Paul-Henri FRA 61
14 Horna, Luis PER 62
15 Monfils, Gael FRA 65
16 Calleri, Agustin ARG 67
17 Zabaleta, Mariano ARG 71
18 Hernandez, Oscar ESP 80
19 Sabau, Razvan ROM 81
20 Almagro, Nicolas ESP 83
21 Montanes, Albert ESP 84
22 Serra, Florent FRA 88
23 Garcia-Lopez, Guillermo ESP 90

Alternates
1. Behrend, Tomas GER 91
2. Mayer, Florian GER 95
3. Tipsarevic, Janko SCG 100
4. Costa, Albert ESP 103
5. Sanchez, David ESP 107
6. Simon, Gilles FRA 112
7. Bastl, George SUI 114
8. Waske, Alexander GER 115
9. Aldi, Francesco ITA 116
10. Di Mauro, Alessio ITA 118
11. Starace, Potito ITA 121
12. Saretta, Flavio BRA 123
13. Vliegen, Kristof BEL 124
14. Falla, Alejandro COL 124
15. Ventura, Santiago ESP 125

Jay

[Guest]

Andrei Pavel is not coming to Bucharest?!

[smucav]

Thanks, Jay.

[gabi]

Andrei Pavel, if you can hear us, we're still thirsty for a Romanian victory in Bucharest!! You should BE there!!

[smucav]

Forgetful Pavel gets wildcard to play Romanian Open

[nitsansh]

Don't Nadal and Davidenko ever take a break???

[nitsansh]

Some guys will add significant milage to their frequent flyer accounts...

Nadal, Lopez, Ferrero and Moya will travel New-York ->Beijing -> Rome (assuming they all nominated for the DC team)
Coria, Nalbandian and Hrbaty will fly from Beijing to Bratislava.
Davydenko and Youzhny to Split.
Johansson to Delhi.
The Germans to Liberec.
Srichaphan, OTOH, will stop in Beijing en route to Bangkok, so no major detour for him.

[Patrik77]

Some guys will add significant milage to their frequent flyer accounts...

Nadal, Lopez, Ferrero and Moya will travel New-York ->Beijing -> Rome (assuming they all nominated for the DC team)
Coria, Nalbandian and Hrbaty will fly from Beijing to Bratislava.
Davydenko and Youzhny to Split.
Johansson to Delhi.
The Germans to Liberec.
Srichaphan, OTOH, will stop in Beijing en route to Bangkok, so no major detour for him.

....and if the lose early in the US Open they fly home in between as well....

[nitsansh]

and some of those will fly back to the far east after Davis Cup...

[smucav]

Moya said he is taking the year off from Davis Cup.

[nitsansh]

He can enjoy a week off then...

[nitsansh]

and some of those will fly back to the far east after Davis Cup...

Actually, none of the top players in Beijing will play in Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh City on week 39, except Johansson and Srichaphan who have DC ties in Asia.

The German contingent (Kohlschreiber, Schuettler, Burgsmuller, Phau, Waske) will be in HCMC, strenghened by Kiefer and Popp... perhaps they don't excpect to be named for DC team...
Also continuing on the Far East tour are Nieminen, Muller, Kim, Tursunov, Lee, Arthurs, Wessels, Moodie, Falla... none of these I think have DC duty...

[Guest]

Haha, forgetful Pavel He may have been relying on the WC.. Never any doubt that they'd give him one!

Doubles entry list should be out sometime this week, shouldn't it?

[ae wowww]

Haha, forgetful Pavel He may have been relying on the WC.. Never any doubt that they'd give him one!

Doubles entry list should be out sometime this week, shouldn't it?

[nitsansh]

It's time to have the doubles list, isn't it??

Does the new system become effective this week?

[ae wowww]

It's time to have the doubles list, isn't it??

Does the new system become effective this week?

Yes, I thought sometime this week, and it's Thursday now, so definitely should be out (!)

The new system should come into effect for Bucharest and Beijing, and probably will - but I think there is perhaps a slim chance it may not? Wondering about the outcome of this press conference and suchlike.. We'll see.

Would Jay have the list??

[ae wowww]

Hi, does anyone have any idea at all?!

[smucav]

Would Jay have the list??

Jay is abroad & hasn't posted since 8/29. Don't know when he is returning. We will have to be patient.

[Fee]

Oh gaaaawwwwwdddd the withdrawal pains!! The trembling hands, muscle weakness, cold sweats, loss of appetite.... Come back Jay, we need our listsssss!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Guest]

Mariano Puerta got the last WC for Bucharest and will be the top seed 8)

[Patrik77]

Mariano Puerta got the last WC for Bucharest and will be the top seed 8)

Who got the third? It´s Pavel, Puerta and?

[Guest]

The other WC goes to the Romanian player who had the best results in futures this year. As far as I know, his name has not yet been disclosed.

[Guest]

3rd WC should go to Victor Crivoi, he won 5 or 6 out of the 18 futures in Romania

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Update:

Beijing (2 SE spots cleared)
OUT: Davydenko, Muller (and Moodie, Bastl, Clement, Falla, Ventura, Vicente, Ryderstedt, Lu, Brzezicki, Mertinak, Garcia, Daniel, Delic, Reynolds, Capdeville, Mazarakis, Gabashvili, Luczak from ALT)
IN: Norman, Tursunov, Waske, Udomchoke
NEXT: Karanusic, Y-T.Wang, Ramirez Hidalgo, Gambill, Labadze, Okun, Marin, Chiudinelli

Bucharest (One of 2 SE spots cleared)
OUT: Ferrer, O.Rochus (and Simon, Aldi, Di Mauro, Falla, Ventura, Vicente from ALT)
IN: Behrend, Mayer, Tipsarevic
NEXT: Costa, Sanchez, Bastl, Waske, Starace, Saretta, Vliegen, G.Lapentti

Not sure when I will have the next update (hopefully at least one more by friday or so) ..

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Doubles entry lists (sum of ranks at the end of the lines)

Beijing, China
Draw Size = 16 Teams (8 Doubles Acceptances+ 6 Singles entries + 2 WC)
Date: 9/12/2005 Cut: 467 Entry System Date: 8/30/2005

1 Wayne Arthurs (AUS) 16 Jordan Kerr (AUS) 54 70
2 Justin Gimelstob (USA) 64 Graydon Oliver(USA) 31 95
3 Ashley Fisher (AUS) 69 Robert Lindstedt (SWE) 76 145
4 Jarkko Niemenen (FIN) 109 Rainer Schuettler (GER) 47 156
5 Huntley Montgomery (USA) 106 Tripp Phillips (USA) 108 214
6 Sanchai Ratiwatana (THA) 135 Sonchat Ratiwatana (THA) 135 270
7 Goran Dragicevic (USA) 196 Mirko Pehar (USA) 172 368
8 Nick Rainey (USA) 263 Brian Wilson (USA) 204 467

Bucharest, Romania
Draw Size = 16 Teams (8 Doubles Acceptances+ 6 Singles entries + 2 WC)
Date: 9/12/2005 Cut: 189 Entry System Date: 8/30/2005

1 Martin Garcia (ARG) 53 Mariano Hood (ARG) 25 78
2 Julian Knowle (AUT) 42 Michael Kohlmann (GER) 45 87
3 Jose Acasuso (ARG) 51 Sebastian Prieto (ARG) 49 100
4 Mariusz Fyrstenberg (POL) 67 Marcin Matkowski (POL) 63 130
5 Petr Pala (CZE) 58 David Skoch (CZE) 86 144
6 Andre Pavel (ROM) 43 Gabriel Trifu (ROM) 105 148
7 Jeff Coetzee (RSA) 81 Chris Haggard (RSA) 87 168
8 Florian Mayer (GER) 128 Rogier Wassen (NED) 61 189

Looks like anybody and his uncle could walk in and play doubles in China.

Jay

[ae wowww]

Thanks J, good boy!

[Andrew_Derer]

Hey Jay are any Aussies in the Quallie entry lists of the Asian Challenger judging by the doubles draw i i take it the Quallies will have a field of some No ranked players

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Update:

Beijing (2 SE spots cleared)
OUT: Davydenko, Kim, Muller, Phau (and Moodie, Bastl, Waske, Clement, Falla, Ventura, Vicente, Ryderstedt, Lu, Brzezicki, Mertinak, Garcia, Ramirez-Hidalgo, Daniel, Gambill, Labadze, Delic, Reynolds, Capdeville, Mazarakis, Gabashvili, Luczak, Marin, Chiudinelli, Guzman, Pashanski, Vahaly, Roger-Vasselin, VanGemerden from ALT)
IN: Norman, Tursunov, Udomchoke, Karanusic, Y-T.Wang, Okun
NEXT: Guccione, Heuberger, Armando, Pless, Salzenstein, Alves, Philippoussis, Kendrick

Bucharest (Second of 2 SE spots cleared)
OUT: Calleri, Ferrer, O.Rochus, Wawrinka (and Costa, Simon, Bastl, Aldi, Di Mauro, Falla, Ventura, Vicente, Greul, Brzezicki, Karanusic, Mertinak, Garcia, Daniel from ALT)
IN: Behrend, Mayer, Tipsarevic, Sanchez, Waske, Starace
NEXT: Saretta, Vliegen, G.Lapentti, Portas, Berlocq, RamirezHidalgo, Labadze, Marach

So the lists fell lick rocks this week, though not too many main draw guys withdrew ..

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Andrew - as you can see Guccione is next-in at Beijing .. Baccanello is some 30 spots out .. No Aussies at Bucharest alt list.

As always, I repet -- Uless the players end up in the top 10 or so of ALT when the lists close, they don't make plans to go there at all; so a name being in the alt list is no indication of anything ..

Jay

[Patrik77]

Qualifying draws after 9PM local time:

Beijing Q - http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2005/747/QS.pdf
Bucharest Q - http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2005/773/QS.pdf

Main draws:

Beijing - http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2005/747/MDS.pdf (SAT, 2 pm)
Bucharest - http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2005/773/MDS.pdf (SAT, 3 pm)

[Guest]

Bucharest

[Guest]

can anybody add the qualifying list from Bucharest?

[EMiLY]

anyone know the reasons for Muller's withdrawal from Beijing or Ferrer's withdrawal from Bucharest?

[PatatRiek]

can anybody add the qualifying list from Bucharest?

there is no qualifying list .. only grand slam and master series events have qualie lists .... if you wanna be in the qualie draw you've to show up at the sign in tonite and make the cut, that's all

anyways, thanks for the updates Jay & thanks for the draws Petrik77

regards
PatatRiek

[Guest]

Does anyone know who will be the Wild Cards in Beijing?

[nitsansh]

can anybody add the qualifying list from Bucharest?

there is no qualifying list .. only grand slam and master series events have qualie lists .... if you wanna be in the qualie draw you've to show up at the sign in tonite and make the cut, that's all

Also ISG have qualie list, I think

[nitsansh]

So the controversial new entry system for doubles doesn't come to effect yet??? I thought it should be introduced right after US Open...

[PatatRiek]

can anybody add the qualifying list from Bucharest?

there is no qualifying list .. only grand slam and master series events have qualie lists .... if you wanna be in the qualie draw you've to show up at the sign in tonite and make the cut, that's all

Also ISG have qualie list, I think

some other events have a qualie list yeah ... anyway, when there is a list it will be posted by Jay

regards
PatatRiek